From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!ericom!kk62.ericsson.se!ytlat From: ytlat@kk62.ericsson.se (Lennart AtternaesTT/UO) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Flame on Verdix, Any other good Unix compilers??? Keywords: ada compiler Message-ID: Date: 10 Aug 90 21:13:47 GMT References: <1990Aug9.191734.11633@sctc.com> Sender: news@ericsson.se Distribution: comp.lang.ada Organization: Ericsson List-Id: endrizzi@sctc.com (Michael Endrizzi ) writes: >I have been using VADS Version 5 Unix self-hosting for 7 months now and >I cannot take it anymore. I am up to my eyeballs in "internal errors" >,"database inconsistency","segmentation error,core dump","out of memory". >4 of us used DEC VMS Ada version 1!!! for 1 and half years and I can >only remember about 4 or 5 errors. Myself in 7 months has found more >errors then that in a Version 5 compiler!!! I am at the point of >bypassing the recompile facilities and building my own Unix scripts >for recompiling and linking. >So tell me, am I the only one??? Tell me I'm not going insane, I'm >almost regretting moving from C to Ada (now that's desperate). Are >there any other compilers out there who's databases don't go south >on a sneeze. That implement generics in a fashion so that they compile. >That has a runtime system without endless loops. That has library >management tools that don't core dump and spit out Diana trees. I have used VADS version 5.5 and 5.7 for three years and I have exactly the same experience. VADS can't handle nested generic, the library manager is a disaster with internal errors as a consequence and using floating point support (MC68881) needs a workaround. I don't know how many hours I have spent the last three years to find workarounds. A half a year ago I bought version 6.0g for Sun4 and naive enough I thougt that the new version would be improved, however, I found a bug that makes it impossible for us to use it, so we have to wait for the next release. My opinion is that VADS is not worth to be even compared to the VAX VMS Ada. Now I have had it and I would appreciate if someone could give me some information about other compilers for Sun3 and Sun4. -- Lennart Atternaes Ericsson Telecom AB Dep. KK/ETX/TT/UO Telephone Fax S-126 25 STOCKHOLM Nat 08-7197564 Nat 08-7196000, 7080 SWEDEN Int +46 8 7197564 Int +46 8 7196000, 7080 E-mail: ytlat@kk.ericsson.se